SAINT BERNARD

San Bernardo is a race of dogs whose name in other languages is: St. Bernhardshund, Bernhardiner, Chien du Saint-Bernard, Saint Bernard Dog.

San Bernardo is a great, elegant dog and strong, extroverted, its appearance is friendly, pacific, is “a kindly” dog. Tame and generally affectionate, he is very loyal and devotee to his masters. Especially it is adapted for the children by those who it feels special attraction, reason why receives the nickname of “dog nursemaid”. He is the quite great thing to protect with moderate aggressiveness.

On the mountain passage of the Great Mount St. Bernhard, to 2,469 meters on the level of the sea, monks founded on century XI, a hospicio for travellers and pilgrims. There they grew up, from mid century XVII, great mountain dogs for guard and monitoring.

The existence of those dogs is documented graphically from 1695 and in writing in chronicles of the hospicio from year 1707. These dogs soon were used like dogs of escort and, especially, like dogs of rescue for lost travellers in the fog and the snow.

They exist chronic published in many languages on the numerous lives that were saved by these dogs of the “white death” and stories of soldiers which they crossed the mountain passage Napoleón Bonaparte towards 1,800, in century XIX, that extended the fame of the dog of San Bernardo by all Europe.